Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal is a collection of twenty-one eruditely written articles that articulate the plight of Dalit women buffeted by tripartite marginalization of class, caste and gender. Lack of education and dearth of agencies to register as well as retrieve their complaints compel the Dalit women to lead a subjugated and claustrophobic existence. Unlike Dalit men, Dalit women have to undergo multiple bouts of humiliation and domination. Dalit women's autobiographies express Dalit women's protest against such injustices and cruelties in their own ways and carve out a space for the mselves. Each autobiographical narrative is a poignant and agonising saga of resistance and thus, proclaims caste as an obliterable disease of the society. Dalit women, by taking recourse to the act of writing about their quotidian struggles, have foregrounded the complex bond between caste and gender as well as paved the way for the emergence of, what Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak calls, 'strategic essentialism.' Contributors, to this anthology, have tried their level best to analyse and explore such variegated issues welling out of the autobiographical Dalit tex ts. The intellectually gifted contributors for this anthology are Prof. D. Amalraj, Dr. Irum Alvi, Dr. Archana Bhattacharjee, Dr. Sigma G.R., Dr. Himanginee Kaushik, Dr. Deepika Rani, Guni Vats, Suruchi Sharma, Kusum Kanger, Ramanuj Mahato, Saikat Guha, Dwaipayan Mitra, Mohd. Anwar Husain Khan , Himanshu Sharma , Pradip Sarikhada, Dr. Namita Panda, Dr. Sumitra Singh, Dr. M. B. Gaijan, Dr. Aparna Lanjewar Bose and Dr. Narendra Kumar.

Dr. Bijender Singh (M.A., M. Phil.& Ph.D.) is a writer, researcher and critic from India. He has qualified UGC-NET, SET and HTET for lectureship and he has done Sanskrit Honours (Shastri), Art& Crafts Teacher Course and Multi-purpose Health Worker (Male) Course. He has written a few essays, some short-stories and a number of Hindi poems. He has published two volumes of poetry; one short-story collection and seven edited anthologies on English book-form publications alirtee rLaatutere N. iHghist Poetry, Confusing Poetry, Love: A Sweet Poison, Gender Discourse in Indian Writings in English, Indian Writing in English: Critical Insights, Indian Dalit Literature: Critical Ruminations, Critical Essays on Indian Diaspora, Indian Dalit Autobiographies: Marginalized Voices, Indian Women Novelists: Feminist Reverberations and Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal. His thrust areas are Gender Studies, Dalit Literature, Diasporic Studies and Afro- American Literature. He has published many articles in many peer-reviewed national journals, international journals, seminar/conference proceedings and edited anthologies. He is the Editor-in- Chief of The Expression: An International Multidisciplinarye - Journal (www.expressionjournal.com). He presently works as an English lecturer.